Braiden McElhaney<\/strong> in District 19.<\/p>\nApril 10 was the last day to file petitions for the primary.<\/p>\n
April 18 is the last day to fill a vacancy after a candidate has declined to run with April 24 being the last day to authorize a substitution after a candidate declines to run.<\/p>\n
April 18 is also the first day for folks seeking signatures for independent, or third party, petitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The November General Election ballot is becoming clearer as the deadline for petitions has arrived. The Chautauqua County Board of Elections’ website at votechautauqua.com provides the information who has filed petitions to run in the November 7 elections. Some new names are in the filing, including Jamestown Democrat Travis Knight, who has filed to run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":47791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[12710,10399,253,259,13161,277,393,431,13159,659,9515,13160,1122,7769,1263,5481,13156,1445,13157,13158,13155],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Vote-Chautauqua-feat.jpg?fit=582%2C280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-dk4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55516,"url":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/candidates-for-mayor-city-council-face-off-in-todays-general-election\/","url_meta":{"origin":51216,"position":0},"title":"Candidates for Mayor, City Council Face Off In Today’s General Election","author":"WRFA Radio","date":"November 7, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is Election Day. 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